Title: Simplify query_posts
Last modified: August 20, 2016

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# Simplify query_posts

 *  [antware](https://wordpress.org/support/users/antware/)
 * (@antware)
 * [13 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/simplify-query_posts/)
 * If anyone could help me simplify this code on my Template Page I’d be eternally
   grateful:
 * <?php if (is_page(‘eastern-cape’)) {
    query_posts(‘cat=4&showposts=10’); } elseif(
   is_page(‘free-state’)) { query_posts(‘cat=10&showposts=10’); } elseif (is_page(‘
   gauteng’)) { query_posts(‘cat=13&showposts=13’); } elseif (is_page(‘kwazulu-natal’)){
   query_posts(‘cat=14&showposts=14’); } elseif (is_page(‘limpopo’)) { query_posts(‘
   cat=15&showposts=15’); } elseif (is_page(‘mpumalanga’)) { query_posts(‘cat=16&
   showposts=16’); } elseif (is_page(‘north-west’)) { query_posts(‘cat=17&showposts
   =17’); } elseif (is_page(‘northern-cape’)) { query_posts(‘cat=18&showposts=18’);}
   elseif (is_page(‘western-cape’)) { query_posts(‘cat=19&showposts=19’); }
 * ?>
 * I was hoping to maybe just use:
 * <?php if (is_page(‘where this would get the current page slug’)) {
    query_posts(‘
   cat=and this-would-get-the-current-page-ID&showposts=10’); }
 * Please any help would be great. Although I could live with the 9 queries above(
   which are provinces of South Africa, but on another page I have to have all the
   cities/towns which would be hundreds……

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 *  Thread Starter [antware](https://wordpress.org/support/users/antware/)
 * (@antware)
 * [13 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/simplify-query_posts/#post-2928405)
 * Sorry the &showposts above should all be &showposts=10 *blush*

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